...Where Every Child Has Mattered For More Than 35 Years

Ethelbert Childrens Services is a family owned business that provides an extensive range of residential and fostering services, supported by specialist education provisions in our own registered schools and vocational centres.

Key to our success is our ability to provide adaptable, bespoke care and education packages specifically designed to meet and achieve a wide range of needs and outcomes.

The care requirements of looked after children are often prone to change; a typical example would be the need for a young person to progress from one of our fourteen children's homes to a more suitable placement within an ECS fostering setting. Our ability to facilitate the transition, whilst maintaining healthy attachments, therapeutic programmes and education placements, ensures the disruption and associated trauma can be closely managed and kept to an absolute minimum.... Read More

Residential Services

Over the last 32 years Ethelbert Childrens Services has acquired and sustained an enviable reputation in the delivery of quality child care, and it is on these foundations that the service has grown to include fourteen homes in its residential division. The majority of the homes are provisions for three children or young people, whereas others are sufficiently spacious to accommodate between four and nine residents.

The philosophy and culture across our homes focuses on basic family values and socially acceptable behaviours, within a structure of clear, well defined and consistent boundaries. Furthermore, each provision has an individual, clearly defined statement of purpose that serves to meet the needs of its particular client group, thereby enabling us to provide appropriate placements for a diverse range of needs and requirements... Read More

Fostering Services

With a stability rate of 97%, an extensive range of professional support services and more than sixty specialist carers across London, Kent, Essex and Sussex, Ethelbert Fostering Services are now recognised as one of the leading fostering agencies across the South East.

Ethelbert Fostering Services is a substantial and versatile provision that caters for solo placements, sibling groups, mother and baby, challenging behaviour and young people with a variety of special needs... Read More